Kurdish writer Nurcan Baysal responds to a letter from Nedim Türfent.
Read More
If This is a Lament
Exclusive preview of the title poem, ‘If this is a lament’, from a new chapbook of work by Turkish poet Bejan Matur, translated by Jen Hadfield and Canan Marasligil.
Read MoreA literature in search of its language
Ciwanmerd Kulek charts the ongoing struggle for the Kurdish language, and whether being a language that is now more written than spoken threatens it in new and troubling ways
Read More
PEN Transmissions 